Question

If I am using a ViewBag which contains a strongly typed object, is there any way on MVC Razor to define (or cast this) so that all the elements of that appear in the IntelliSense?

For example lets say I have

ViewBag.Movies.Name
ViewBag.Movies.Length

I know Movies is of object type Movie, which has the members Name and length

class Movie { 
    public string Name {get; set;}
    public string Length {get; set;}
}

Can I somehow cast this, like I do for model

@model Transactions.UserTransactionDetails

So that the members of Movie become available in Razor?

Answer 1

Use a ViewModel, which contains properties for all the different objects that you view needs

e.g.

public class MovieTransactionViewModel 
{
   public List<Transaction> Transactions { get; set; }
   public List<Movie> Movies { get; set; }
}

Then, have your view use this as it’s model, and you will get intellisense in your view.

That way you are not changing your models, so EntityFramework will not be affected.